09-10-2019, 05:26 PM
(09-10-2019, 04:32 PM)Amie Wrote:Terry Wrote:Welwyn doesn't sound right, but there was a Welwyn brand of resistor - mainly wirewound, from memory.Probably muddled the location, definitely Erie brand.... Good old Yarms eh! I thought it was an American company with a factory in London, and reading your link it was before WW2, (now I have my history to go with the components).
There was indeed a Welwyn brand, still is - now part of TT Electronics. Factory is now in Bedlington, near Newcastle-on-tyne.. parts of it still LOOK like 1950's (I was there last year). The resistors are really good: Wirewound (with a vitreous coating) as Terry says, but also metal film (MFR4 and MFR5 types) which are my resistors of choice.
(09-10-2019, 04:32 PM)Amie Wrote:Terry Wrote:What's so amusing about 4 figure telephone numbers?Conjures up mental images of all the old films I love, where the lady in the evening gown with the terribly proper accent picks up the phone and asks to be connected with Whitehall 1212.
Thanks,
Amie.
'Dial Whitehall double-twelve
Ask for the CID
When there's an answer, say 'Yoo-Hoo,
Guess who it is, it's me' "